Has the Theory of the BigBang affected your beliefs on the creation by God?

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While I was conducting a personal research on the BigBang, I wondered if some catholics were affected by believing in the BigBang. With the research I have accomplished so far, I have three statements
(1) Believing in the BigBang is a personal choice done by the individual. (2) Some argue that the BigBang was caused by God. (3) That the BigBang is the idea that the universe started as a single point, then expanded and expanded to become as big as it is now (and it could still be stretching).

Here I ask if you believe in the BigBang and if it affected your view on the Genesis or any biblical scripture that describe the creation of the world by God. I solely want to focus on the aftermath of believing in the bigbang from the Catholic point of view, however, anyone is welcomed to state their findings and opinions.

Thank you! (Side note: it would be helpful if ever you reference anything to link it!)
 
I’ve never actually doubted the big Bang, so I don’t know what I’m supposed to share. The fact LeMaître was a Catholic priest, certainly strengthens my faith in God And his creation.
 
My adult son asked me something like this one day, and my answer is that it doesn’t matter whether scientists can prove their Big Bang theory or not because it doesn’t affect my life on a day to day basis.
I don’t care. It won’t change my belief that God created everything.
 
The Big Bang is an interesting theory. It doesn’t affect our salvation or our relationship with God in general, though, so it shouldn’t be on our mind all the time.

The Big Bang doesn’t propose anything in contrast to Genesis, AFAIK, so it hasn’t affected my view.
 
The Big Bang Theory is completely compatible with my beliefs on the creation by God.

The theory was, after all, the work of a Belgian Roman Catholic Priest, Father Georges Lemaitre.

I have always seen it this way:

The universe is ever expanding…but why? I would think because of a HUGE explosion…we can see this in placing a fire cracker under an empty tin can and lighting it…when it explodes (in a bang), there is a flash of light, and a release of energy lifting the can off the ground.

Now, lets go to Genesis, and God saying "Let there be light". Then came a HUGE explosion releasing the light God so commanded so big that the release of energy that will never end (hence the ever expanding universe)"… a BIG BANG…("and there was light") …and the universe expands from that release of energy.
 
That the universe is currently expanding is fact, not theory. It’s observable and 100% confirmed. Scripture says God “stretches out the heavens like a scroll”. That is one of many strong indicators that the Big Bang model is correct. As others noted, the Catholic priest Monsignor LeMaitre first formulated the model, though he called it the Cosmic Egg hypothesis. It confirms that the universe has a beginning… as the Church always taught. Prior to the Big Bang model, many scientists assumed the universe had no beginning or end.
 
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Impacted my beliefs in what way? I mean, obviously some elements of the creation narrative in Genesis would be understood in a more symbolic historical way that an exactly literal historical way. But beyond that… what are you looking for? I believe God creates and conserves all creation, the Prime Mover and First Cause of all things at all times, omnipresent and omnipotent and omniscient.
 
Thank you for your reply, although the initial question is vague I want to have a brief idea of if something changed in the way you either perceived the Genesis or the theory of the Bigbang after learning about it. To be more precise it comes down to the question of how you think the world came to be created and how it all went down and if it changed after learning about the Bigbang theory or vice versa. Maybe it didn’t change anything in your beliefs or maybe it made you believe that God was behind the bigbang itself.
 
Nope.
  1. the Big Bang was 1st theorized by a Catholic Priest.
  2. there is no reason to think the “Big Bang” wasn’t God creating the Universe. After all, the Big Bang pretty much sounds like a description of what God first creating the Universe would sound/look like.
  3. Anyone who thinks that God created the world in 6 “earth days” (aka 144 earth hours) really needs to study Catholic Theology, Catholic Philosophy, & Catholic History a lot more.
Godspeed & God bless!
 
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Not a bit. God could have whispered the creation, thought it into existence, however He chose to exercise His power was His choice. Love science, but I don’t have to understand every intricate detail to believe God did something. After all He created Science too.
 
Not at all. Genesis isn’t intended as a specific, accurate account of creation.
It is a very short summary and however God created this vast Universe, i don’t trouble myself by it.
 
We can get caught up comparing God’s time and what he created one day versus to our own experience of time. Some do this to “disprove” God’s existence.

What did it look like when the heavens and Earth were created? How much earthly time did these things take? An instant? Millions of years? I don’t know. But in all things, God’s time is both instantaneous and eternal and does not make sense compared to time as we understand and experience it. I don’t find the big bang in conflict with Genesis for that reason.
 
Welcome!

Rather, it was as if Fr. Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, S.J. wrote the following to us:
“…it seemed good to me also, having followed (studied) all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account (theory) for you, most excellent Theoph′ilus (Dear brothers and sisters), that you may know the truth concerning the things of (Genesis) which you have been informed.”
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The Priest who convinced EINSTEIN that the universe was expanding.
 
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I suppose if there were no convincing theories about the origins of our universe, I might interpret Genesis more literally. But that is a guess, as the big bang theory has been around longer than i.
 
The Big Bang is just a description of what happened when God created the universe. What happened then? I see this as an interesting explanation of the creation by God.
I don’t see this as a slam against Christian belief.
 
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Nope. I don’t see why God couldn’t create the material universe in a big bang.
 
The theory of the Big Bang was first proposed by a catholic priest, and it lines up perfectly with the universe being caused by a creator. The Big Bang shows that The universe isn’t infinite, it had a definite beginning. Also from
What I have read, there would have been a lot of light at the moment of or shortly after…(”let there be light”.) all of that to say, it complements my belief in God.
 
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